Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 13
"A blessing in disguise" means a bad thing that may turn out to be good.
Who acts: blessing, bad thing · What happens: mean, turn out, be · To what, where: bad thing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessing, bad thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 blessing | det |
| 3 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 disguise | case |
| 5 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blessing | nmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 blessing | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thing | amod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 turn | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 turn | aux |
| 13 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 turn | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 good | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 good | cop |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 turn | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a blessing in disguise | a bad thing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | turn out | may | a bad thing | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | a bad thing not said here | good property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:euphemisms:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:13.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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